Quote

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

It's always fun to talk about jazz.

I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

I've always loved jazz.

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.